Etchings

A set of 4 etchings that use relief printed chine collé to create prints. The images show links with the shelf series of work and react to found imagery to further develop individual characters and environments.

Shelf Series

This recent body of work takes its inspiration from observing, collecting and recording the discarded small-scale plastic objects that are found whilst walking through London streets. These objects, the product of cheap manufacturing, are the leftovers, lying around on suburban pavement for months on end before becoming part of the fabric of the street. Free for all, crushed and broken they are available to anyone who wants them. This street junk, invisible and acceptable to many, is in some respect an archaeological snapshot of society, but nevertheless remains representative and familiar.

The work is concerned with exploring ideas around temptation, related to the way we consume and look at the world, and tries to focus on the forgotten. The prints bring a collection of objects together allowing them to regenerate and adopt new identities that are recognisable by their shape and interaction with colour rather than their previous life. Objects occasionally merge together creating a fantasy world where grids and grills open and close, hiding and revealing an array of brightly coloured layered objects. Representative shelves offer echoes of a commercial world, with objects combining and merging with layers to build, overlap and create spaces that have a familiar but distant reference to the real world.

This series of 25 relief prints work takes imagery from repurposed and recycled material, echoing, and yet abandoning, their former life.

Shelf 10

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf 20

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf 15

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf Series, 11, 13 & 20

Shelf 11

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm, framed 105 x 73cm

Shelf 1

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf 13

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm, framed 105 x 73cm

Shelf 17

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf 19

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf 12

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf 21

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf 18

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Shelf 3

relief print on bunkoshi paper, 97 x 67cm

Mid Shelf Series 2 & 3

A series of one-off relief prints that use overlapping shapes and colours to explore composition in response to found objects.

Mid Shelf Series 3, Relief 1

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series, Relief 2

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series 2, Relief 2

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series, Relief 3

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series, Relief 4

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series, Relief 5

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Small Shelf Series 1

A series of one-off relief prints that use overlapping shapes and colours to explore composition in response to found objects.

Mid Shelf Series 1

A series of one-off relief prints that use overlapping shapes and colours to explore composition in response to found objects.

Mid Shelf Series 1, relief 1

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series, work in progress, studio shot

Mid Shelf Series 1, relief 4

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series 1, relief 3

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series 1, relief 5

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Mid Shelf Series 1, relief 2

56 x 38 cm, Relief print on Relief on 250gsm BFK Rives

Wiggle Series, etchings

This series of work plays with an assemblage of shapes and grids that have taken inspiration from discarded objects collected from the city’s streets. Through the etching process, these different material objects, adopt new characters and are now identified by their shape and interaction with colour, rather than their previous function or use. Sitting together in a balanced composition, they play with forms and textures – recognisable to us, but always on our peripheries and begin to form a narrative of the city in which we live.